PROBLEMS IN
PERICLEAN BUILDINGS

BY
G. W. ELDERKIN, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, PRECEPTOR IN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON
LONDON: HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1912

Copyright, 1912, by Princeton University Press
for the United States of America.
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Printed by Princeton University Press,
Princeton, N. J., U. S. A.

CONTENTS
[I.]	The Significance of the Irregularity of the Propylaea	[1]
[II.]	An Interpretation of the Caryatid Porch	[13]
[III.]	The Erechtheum as Built	[19]
[IV.]	The Erechtheum as Planned	[49]

	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[1.]	East Window of the Pinakotheke.
[2.]	The Pinakotheke as seen from the base of the Bastion of the Temple of Wingless Victory.
[3.]	The Pinakotheke as seen from a point near the axis of the central portal.
[4.]	Plan of Propylaea with zigzag road of ascent.
[5.]	Scene on an Archaic Amphora.
[6.]	North end of western interior foundation of the Erechtheum. View from the east.
[7.]	The ground plan of the Erechtheum as built.
[8.]	The north side of the door in the west wall.
[9.]	North wall at place of contact with the eastern cross-wall.
[10.]	The cutting in the marble block at the N. E. corner of the eastern cella below the supposed floor-level.
[11.]	The interior N. W. corner of the Temple.
[12.]	The original plan of the Erechtheum.

PROBLEMS INPERICLEAN BUILDINGS